With the holidays approaching, people will be letting loose with a few drinks; Thanksgiving Eve, in particular, is one of the biggest drinking nights of the year. But according to a study from 24/7 Wall St., lower Fairfield County goes heavy on the drinking no matter the time of year.

The report states that the Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk area is the only metro area in Connecticut in which more than 1 in every 5 adults drinks excessively.

Using data from the CDC, 24/7 Wall St. identified the metropolitan areas reporting the highest levels of binge and heavy drinking in each state.

The percentage of people in the Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk area who report excessive drinking is 20.6 percent, compared to an estimated 18 percent nation-wide. As a state, Connecticut mirrors the national number with 18.6 percent reporting excessive drinking.

Across U.S. metro areas, excessive drinking rates range from fewer than 1 in every 10 adults to more than 1 in every 4 adults, 24/7 Wall St. reports.

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Excessive drinking does not necessarily go hand in hand with dangerous or harmful behavior, but the report claims that excessive drinking takes the lives of "tens of thousands of Americans each year and is responsible for about 1 in every 10 deaths among working age adults."

One of the ways binge drinking becomes most dangerous is when drunk people get behind the wheel. In the Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk "34.6% of roadway fatalities in the metro area involve alcohol, higher than both the state and national rates," the report states.

The common characteristics of heavy-drinking areas, as reported by 24/7 Wall St., fit Fairfield County. The site reports that heavier drinking populations tend to have high median incomes and tend to be well-educated.

"Of the 50 metro areas on this list, 34 are home to a larger share of adults with a bachelor's degree than their respective state as a whole," the site writes.